Given all the press that the word "nigger" has been receiving lately, what with books about it and white comedians blurting it out uncontrollably, we at Unfettered Letters thought it a good time to look more closely at the history of another racially charged word: the much beloved and lamented "honky." Popularized in the 1970s [...]
The front page news was particularly exciting for aficionados of 70s television this morning, as they no doubt read the headline “Journal of American Medicine Association Announces Stuttering Gene Found” in the early edition with relief and gratitude. Not as well known to today’s generation, Stuttering Gene was a beloved household name for a brief [...]
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